Lurking Darkness

Dust to Dust Pt. 3

As you, Yang, Blake, and Weiss all stand before the Ace Ops, you notice Ruby, still on the floor.

"Yang. Do me a favor, stay with her." You ask her.

"But you'll be outnumbered."

"Then it'll be an even fight." You say in a serious tone. Yang doesn't move at first.

"Just comfort her, we need her." Yang nods.

"You kids really think you can beat us? We're the best Huntsman in Atlas."

"You were. Then I woke up from my nap."
You lower your body temp to -400.

"Oh My Gods it's cold in here!"

"I know, but it gets better. Trust me."
You charge forward, you're almost as fast as Ruby at this point.

"Hrngh. Marrow! With me. Let Blake and Weiss deal with Vine and Elm." Harriet orders.
She darts after you, Marrow just jogs over. She stops in front of you. You're still freezing the air.

"We're on the same side Harriet!" She charges you, but you're too fast. Too fast for Harriet.
You punch her in the kidney, she recoils and tries to counter attack. But you dodge again, landing a combo on her face. She is pissed now.

"MARROW!" You look behind you and see Marrow raising his hand.

"Not so fast." You whisper.

"Stay!" You're already out of the way, Harriet has been hit by it.

"MARROW YOU IDIOT!"

"HEY HE'S GONE YOU WERE IN THE WAY!"

"Behind you." As he turns, you land a beautiful uppercut to his face.

"STAY!" You moved again. You appear beside him and raise your body temp to the limit.
1000 degrees F.

"Can you please pick hot or cold Y/n?"

"Trust me Pyrrha. You'll love this plan."
You simply punch Marrow in the gut, he's mad now.

"STAY!!" He actually hit you, now Harriet is free.

"Finally! Gods Marrow you're dumb." You smirk in slow motion.

"Guess what you two?

"What—?!" You're behind Marrow and you slam him.

"I'm way ahead of that cheap semblance, I just lured in two little fishies with a few words." You smirk.

"BASTARD!" Harriet says full of rage.

Blake's P.O.V

"Vine is a lot faster than he looks."

"Same for Elm. I might be able to freeze Vine for you to finish the job."

"That'd work."

"You kids done talking? If so were gonna handcuff you now." Elm says cockily.

"Fat chance." You say, realizing you're a lot more like Y/n than you'd like to admit.

"Fine, I guess we are doing this." Vine readies himself, so does Elm.

"Checkmate?" Weiss suggests.

"Checkmate." You both charge at Vine first, him being far more ranged than Elm, Weiss elegantly jumps over the swing of Elms hammer and you slide underneath, both of you attacking her legs as you do so, Vine uses his arms to grab Weiss and you, unluckily for him, it's a Shadow, you come up from the side and kick him in his face, he tried to move but couldn't thanks to Weiss' ice, you then grab his bola and tie him in it, slamming him into the floor. Yang smiles a bit at that one.

"You kids..." Elm states.

"Just give up!"

"This is my home." Weiss says before the smoke of Vine's impact dissipates.
"I won't let it go without a fight." She has summoned Arma Gigas. You charge Elm, she thrusts her hammer into your gut, just before she could hit you away, Arma Gigas come in and punches the floor, shattering it. Weiss charges in with her speed, she is however hit with the hammer, just before that though, Weiss throws a time dilation Glyph your way, as you are in, now your as fast or faster than Harriet. You charge, landing each hit with Gambol Shroud, legs, arms, calves, all hit. You end it with a kick to her midsection. Launching her through the door, to where you see Y/n finish tying Marrow and Harriet.

"You beat both of them?!" You say shocked.

"Yep, was kinda easy actually. How's Ruby?"

"I'm okay." She says standing up and walking to you three. Yang behind her.

"You guys did great." She says with red eyes, from the crying no doubt.

"Are you okay? Seriously, We saw you lose it."

"I'm fine, thank you Y/n."

"Now we have to go get the Lamp or Staff." She says to everyone. Just then, Maria and Pietro come around the corner, you were still tying up and unconscious Harriet, you tighten the knot a bit more as they stare at you.

"This is the part where they ask us to help." Maria says stoically.

"I thought so." He laughs.

"I think the Winter Maiden is in trouble. I'm going to head that way." Blake stiffly grabs your arm.

"You'd better be careful, Cinder could be down there."

"I'll be fine kitten." You kiss her forehead and scratch her ears.

"I love you."

"I love you too."

"Don't worry Blake, he's not going alone, me and Ruby are going with." Weiss states.

"Sure, just keep up ya slow pokes." You fly off at crazy speeds.

"Pyrrha, talk time."

"Okay?"

"How do you think Salem knew about my mother?"

"I have no idea, maybe a mole? That still wouldn't explain what she meant though."

"Just my thinking, Oz needs to come back, so I can beat the fuck out of him, something is fishy."

"Agreed, but don't kill the boy Y/n, Professor Ozpin is to blame right now."

"Agreed, let's get to the Maiden before it's too late, Winter may not have a lot of time left if Cinder is there."

Almost done with Volume 7! Again, thanks for reading! -P
P.S: Sorry for reuploading pts 2 and 3, they somehow got reversed and I had to fix it. Again, thanks for reading! -P